SACRED HOOP REWILDING

Tending Wild Foods

Sacred Hoop Rewilding PO Box 39 Beatty, OR 97621

Sustaining our wild food gardens We become what we eat and what we eat becomes plentiful. When we value and tend wild foods we are stepping towards reintegrating humanity as a harmonious participant in Nature. Huge tracks of monoculture farms are unsustainable without oil and machinery. Farmed crops disappear within a couple of years when not cultivated but wild food gardens can thrive for many decades without tending. Our pre-agricultural ancestors not only gathered but also planted and tended wild foods. We coevolved with these plants and animals to be symbiotically interdependent with each other. The people knew that when they spread seed and roots of edible plants they would continue to thrive and feed people far into the future. Today, these wild gardens are constantly threatened by acts of neglect and abuse. We want to see wild food traditions survive the modern age and thrive with the children of the future. We can restore wild abundance. These gardens need people to tend and live with them again. It begins with eating, learning, and walking together. Please, join us!

Plant your hope on the Hoop

Mission Statement
Sacred Hoop Rewilding is dedicated to the regeneration and sustenance of Indigenous Migratory Life-Ways through the tending of Wild Food Gardens for Now and Future Generations.
*Hoops* The cyclical pathways of interconnected wild gardens that we walk as we gather and tend the wild foods in their seasons. *Rewilding* To return to a flourishing state of wildness. *Wild Food Gardens* Places where wild foods (leaves, roots, seeds, and fruits as well as various fauna) are tended into greater abundance through the symbiotic interactions of human beings.

We want to see the land abundant again with a planting back people returning life to the hoop and the ancient sacred gardens, helping each other grow simultaneously and symbiotically, plants and humans feeding one another. For more information contact:
sacredhooprewilders@gmail.com (website to come soon) There are many ways to get involved with us. We are always organizing opportunities for learning about the Wild Gardens and helping us restore abundance to them. The transition between modern day life and ancient ways takes time. If you cant help by joining our efforts, you can sponsor people in their journey between these worlds. Time and work are the best contributions but a little money can go a long way towards helping us Rewild! Sponsor a Hoop Walk - $20 - $500 + Land grants $100 $10,000 + For larger contributions, work-time donations or to join our efforts, please send a letter of intent to our email or postal address. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. Finisia Medrano's book, Growing Up In Occupied America is available at: www.lulu.com The book costs $20 and all proceeds go to support Finisia and rewilding the Great Basin. Rollin On Tha Hoop - A collection of writings from the Hoop and CD of Root Raps and Hoop Hop contact: courtneyhooplaw@gmail.com

Our goals are

*To preserve and restore interconnected Hoops of Wild Gardens abundant with diverse food sources, and to establish Rewilding Sanctuaries that offer refuge to Rewilders with safe places to plant and tend. *To support families and individuals living in and tending wild food gardens through provisions of necessary equipment and resources so that ultimately it will be possible again to raise children in full immersion on the Hoop. *To support Native Peoples who are reclaiming, sustaining and teaching their wild food traditions. *To educate the public through presentations, hands on learning opportunities and publications about indigenous migratory life-ways, especially the gathering, eating, planting and tending of native wild foods. *To support continued gathering and sharing of information about wild food life-ways through specific research projects. *Working with public officials and government institutions to support native food habitats and the people living with them.

I am one of the last of the hunter-gatherer people, who practices this life-way with my heart and soul. We did not plow the Earth we fed her what she fed us. We all live on sacred life Hoops our annual travels collecting food are our traditions and our way of life. Our planting is deliberate, but without effort. The seeds we wait for naturally fall into the holes left by the digging of the roots. Everywhere across the desert our bread root is blooming! These people today do not hear me, they will not see it. They will not see anything that requires their sacrifice. People are faced daily with the failure of their ways. But if one collects the seeds of the plants one eats, and plants them back, then that one is working to make things more abundant. - Finisia Medrano